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More Info.Remembering Omni Magazine and the Guccione'sVARIETY, the entertainment industry news site, recently announced that a production company composed of Jerrick Media and Maven Pictures are producing a new TV series about the life of Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse Magazine. The announcement had me reminiscing about a press event in 1992 where I met Bob and Kathy at the Penthouse Mansion which was located at 14-16 East 67th Street. A historic, pricey neighborhood near New York City’s Central Park. More Info.Where Has This Task Manager Key Combo Been Hiding Almost everyone is familiar with the key combo CTR_ALT_DEL to bring up Windows Task Manager. Did you know that since Windows 3.1 and NT you can bring it up directly with CTRL_SHIFT_ESC ?Galaxy S7 /S7 Edge Pulls In Local Radio Without Internet AccessUnless you intensely read the specs for the Galaxy S7/Edge you might not know that Samsung included an FM receiver on a chip. It's more of a convenience than an earth shattering feature but it does work. To get it working just download an FM app and plug in a pair of wired ear phones into the earphone jack. Activate the FM App. With location on your local stations should appear. The earphone jack is essential as it functions as the FM antenna! So what's the big attraction? If you're trying to conserve your precious data plan and out of the car jogging you don't have to use a lot of data to stream from the internet. Just download one of the FM apps from the Google Play Store. FM apps More info

Fake Error Messages And RansomwareIn the past, if you incorrectly typed in the name of a website you might have landed on a parked domain pretending to offer content. The website owner got some ad revenue and you got a small detour. No real harm was done to either party. These days I’m landing much more frequently on the scam websites that attempt to hijack your browser, and trick you into calling a number purporting to be the Microsoft Support Center (it isn’t) and letting some crook aka support agent get access and control of your computer.Do not let that happen or you could be in big trouble. More Info.

Logitech Legacy Camera's May Work with Windows 10If you're using Windows Vista/7/ 8.x and you just need to find the driver again to reinstall you could use DriverUpdate software, Google or Bing search or you could risk malware infections and PUPS (Potentially Unwanted Programs) from being installed on your machine trying to download old drivers from download sites that add unwanted programs in their install. Some legacy drivers will not work with Windows 10. But here's the official list of webcams purported to work with Windows 10 directly from Logitech . Chart of Logitech's official support under Windows 10 for older product versions. They also have an FTP site for legacy products. Howard Sobel Read more. Software Pick of The Week - New SiteVisit the New Software Pick of the Week site. We've migrated our new picks to our WordPress site. Each week our editors Chris Spera and Howard Sobel select their favorite software picks. If you are a software publisher please contact us at info@wugnet.com More info .

Did You Know You Can Easily Create Multiple Virtual Desktop Views In Windows 10?There is a useful new feature in Windows 10 that is so easy to miss. It’s the ability to create multiple virtual custom desktops with a unique set of apps running in each one. And it’s insanely easy to do. If you have two or more screens you can even have more “virtual desktops”. Creating a virtual desktop allows you to create uncluttered screens with just the applications running you need. Great for special projects. Here’s how to do it: Howard Sobel, Editor
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How to Fix Windows Mail refusing to load because it is missing WLDCore.dllI recently received an update message from Windows messenger that told me a new update was available which of course was Skype. I already use Skype but I installed it again. The same day I also switched from Windows Security Essentials to Avira to do a test and then switched back. Somewhere after that process, I discovered that Windows Mail would not work. Each time I launched it an error message indicated it could not find wldcore.dll. The articles I found in search were old. They also referred to a common shared folder c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared. Unfortunately, this folder did not exist on my Windows 7 installation. The fix: Do a repair of Windows mail. I went into Control Panel and initiated an uninstall and told Windows Essentials 2012 to repair only Windows Mail. Voila! Worked like a charm. Up and running again. I finally found an article that dealt with this issue. - Howard Sobel
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AppleOutlookDAVConfig is crashing Outlook CalendarAfter wasting considerable time using Google to research why AppleOutlookDAVConfig was crashing my Outlook calendar I was able to quickly come up with a search result high up on the list that was actually solved the problem. Interesting that it was in the Bing Search Engine! This problem has been around for years and is related to iCloud synchronization with repeating events in syncing the Outlook calendar. I found a large amount of similar messages on the Apple discussion boards as well. More info on fixing this issue. >

Microsoft to Provide Malware Support for XP until July 2015Good news for Windows XP users. Microsoft reversed its decision to terminate support for Security Essentials. You will now be able to get "malware" updates until July 2014. This is not the first time Microsoft has reversed some of its end of life decisions for XP but XP is like a cat with nine lives. With millions of users still using XP turning off malware support would not have been a wise thing for secure computing. However, there are a lot of third party malware/anti virus choices that support XP. So really this is not such a big deal. - Howard Sobel List of XP compatible AV/Malware products . .

Scam Alert - The Great Fake Computer Tech Call ScamIf you get a call from a "tech support agent" asking you if you are aware that your computer or server has serious errors DO NOT LET THEM TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR COMPUTER. They will urge you to let them take over control so they can fix the problem. This is a known scam. The caller ID was spoofed so if you call 212) 777-3456. you'll get "MoviePhone." Be cautious. Don't hand over your password and never let someone you don't know or trust take over your computer. There are some legitimate companies using remote tech but these are initiated by YOU calling their tech support line when you are seeking support for say your cable connection.

Unethical Software Monetization Methods Are Driving Users NutsFreeware has always been a benefit for users and developers. Developers were happy to provide freeware to users for the opportunity of selling their more powerful versions. Consumers love to get “free software apps” that provide value (not cripple ware). Things have changed. The new monetization tool for software publishers is either including a toolbar or installing other applications with their download. They key to defining where unethical boundaries are crossed are in the disclosure process to the user. - Howard Sobel

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